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"It's How Things are Done" (Friday October 31, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: I wanna need to know basis, because you need to
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Speaker 1: know the first thing today.
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Speaker 2: George said, steal metem have a day at least for work.
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Speaker 3: When the sun comes up, drops.
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Speaker 4: A pew of the scoom, the nods.
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Speaker 3: Joey has everything a dream, do all the treasure said,
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Speaker 3: he needs.
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Speaker 2: The one that Joe's all smiled.
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Speaker 3: He only aids pas, lever be your Joe. I want
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Speaker 3: to be your Joe.
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Speaker 1: Listen, tell.
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Speaker 2: All we can. Yeah, it is that time, oh.
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Speaker 1: This day, any day, oh you know mind.
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Speaker 2: And mostly when you.
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Speaker 3: Says she's coming home this Christmas day.
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Speaker 2: Trans Siberian Orchestra hitting the road in a couple of weeks,
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Speaker 2: and my personal friendship with the band has given me
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Speaker 2: an opportunity. For years I've been able to do things
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Speaker 2: like welcome them to our hometown and bring them to
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Speaker 2: listeners all across wherever I've been. But now I am
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Speaker 2: in many places and it's so neat to help you
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Speaker 2: experience the Christmas magic that my wife and I do
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Speaker 2: and with our kids every single year. So we have,
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Speaker 2: through Trans Siberian Orchestra, been able to get tickets to
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Speaker 2: so many of the shows in cities where first Thing
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Speaker 2: Today is being listened to, and we're going to pick
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Speaker 2: out a winner of our next one right here. Let
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Speaker 2: me get to reach in here and shuffle around at
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Speaker 2: some of the earth we're working on some of the
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Speaker 2: early ones right now. Some of the early ones we've
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Speaker 2: already given away Colorado Springs and Youngstown and Portland and Sacramento.
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Speaker 2: And this one is for the vi Star Vets Memorial
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Speaker 2: Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, on December eleventh. And the winner
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Speaker 2: of that one is Jason. Pardon me, Jason Schopstall. I
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Speaker 2: hope I'm pronouncing right. Jason. Jason Schofstall listening to us
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Speaker 2: on WFOY in Saint Augustine and just down the road
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Speaker 2: from Jacksonville. King, Congratulations, you've got a pair of tickets
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Speaker 2: to see the Trans Siberian Orchestra on December eleventh at
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Speaker 2: the Vistar Veterans Memorial Arena. And a reminder, if you
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Speaker 2: don't get tickets for free from me, you can go
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Speaker 2: online and go to trans Siberian dot org and they
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Speaker 2: will have Pardon me, it's allergy season here in the
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Speaker 2: Mid Atlantic, and I didn't load up on my first
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Speaker 2: free in the morning coffee right before we came on
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Speaker 2: the air to make sure all the pipes were well
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Speaker 2: oiled before we got started. But I was excited to
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Speaker 2: get the ticket giveaway. So Jason Schafstahl listening to us
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Speaker 2: on WFOY in Saint Augustine. The rules of order? What
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Speaker 2: are they? What are Robert's rules of order? Why did
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Speaker 2: Robert get the job? How did he win the government
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Speaker 2: contract to write the rules of order? Why can't we
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Speaker 2: just decide what we want to do? And this is
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Speaker 2: one of the places where I feel like Americans have
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Speaker 2: lost the faith in the government, because it is just
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Speaker 2: about get me the win. Find a way within the
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Speaker 2: procedures to get us a win. And if we don't
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Speaker 2: find it within the procedures, let's write it in to
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Speaker 2: the procedures so that the next time we need to
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Speaker 2: do this, it's already there. And that's that's where I
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Speaker 2: think a lot of Americans have lost faith in their
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Speaker 2: local governments as well. What's the procedure to give comment
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Speaker 2: to the local school board? What is the procedure of
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Speaker 2: the school board is supposed to be held to when
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Speaker 2: you make a public comment? What are they required to
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Speaker 2: respond to? Decades ago, we wrote laws saying that government
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Speaker 2: had to upon your request comply with Freedom of Information
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Speaker 2: Act queries. You said, I wanted to know what went
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Speaker 2: on with this decision, And little by little they buy
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Speaker 2: fifty one forty nine votes, narrowed and winnowed the scope
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Speaker 2: of what you could get through FOYA. You couldn't you know,
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden while now we need people to
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Speaker 2: pay for you know, these we already paid for these things.
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Speaker 2: I remember when my friend Chris Horner, best selling author
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Speaker 2: of Red Hot Lies, Power Grab, Politically and Correct Guide
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Speaker 2: to Global Warming, he told me that now Foyer was
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Speaker 2: going to come with a fee that you know, the
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Speaker 2: governments were now allowed to say, well, this is how
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Speaker 2: much it's going to cost you to get the information
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Speaker 2: that you already paid for. See, this is the thing
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Speaker 2: that I think has got Democrats and Republicans alike just
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Speaker 2: face palm in the morning, because it becomes a way
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Speaker 2: you can hide behind. The procedure. Procedures are no longer
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Speaker 2: meant to clarify and make sure everyone understands how the
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Speaker 2: process works. Procedures are designed to help protect those who
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Speaker 2: engage in the procedures from ever being scrutinized, forever being
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Speaker 2: held to a count right now and coming up into
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Speaker 2: the midterms. I guarantee the next year you will in
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Speaker 2: Illinois and Massachusetts and Florida and Texas, all of you
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Speaker 2: are going to be inundated with stories about how so
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Speaker 2: and so voted against their party so many times. That's
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Speaker 2: one of the things that the political consultants get off on, saying,
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Speaker 2: my candidate X voted against party leadership this many times
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Speaker 2: and they didn't. If you go to the rollcall dot
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Speaker 2: org and look up any role call vote and their
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Speaker 2: opponents will undoubtedly run ad saying Congressman who's he wants it,
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Speaker 2: says he's independent, but every time a vote came to
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Speaker 2: the floor, he voted with insert named Mike Johnson or
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Speaker 2: Hakeem Jeffries here. It all depends on what you know.
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Speaker 2: I could write the script for theseolitical ads as we
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Speaker 2: sit here right now. And what they've done is they've
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Speaker 2: voted against it in some committee, some committee where their
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Speaker 2: vote was irrelevant. I vote against moving this along, and
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Speaker 2: then they can say they voted against it when they
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Speaker 2: voted for it. And why do they do that because
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Speaker 2: they learned from John Kerry. They learned from John Kerry
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Speaker 2: that you know, saying that you voted for it before
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Speaker 2: you voted against it as a bad idea. So let's
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Speaker 2: come up with parliamentary procedures that allow me to say
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Speaker 2: I voted against it even if I didn't, because in
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Speaker 2: the world of truthiness, there was a point in some time,
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Speaker 2: in some place, in some incarnation where I did vote
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Speaker 2: against it. So you can't say I'm a liar, I'm
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Speaker 2: a misrepresentator. I'm an obvious scat, not a liar, because
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Speaker 2: I did vote against it, and you can't say I
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Speaker 2: didn't because here's here in this committee, in the Subcommittee
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Speaker 2: Onhealth Human Services and left Nostril Inhalers here it is
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Speaker 2: clearly I voted against the procedural motion to bring the
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Speaker 2: bill to the floor. What did that do? Nothing? But
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Speaker 2: I voted against it. This is what's I mean. I
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Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe you're you didn't even realize that was
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Speaker 2: going on, and then you think about it, you go, oh,
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Speaker 2: now it makes sense. Now I understand why it doesn't
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Speaker 2: feel like anything ever happens. That's why. And to a
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Speaker 2: great degree, nothing ever happening is good these The more
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Speaker 2: times government rights laws, the more weight goes into the
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Speaker 2: black hole of legislation that has created a density, a
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Speaker 2: black hole, singularity so strong justice itself cannot escape anymore,
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Speaker 2: because somewhere in this black hole is some law, some
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Speaker 2: ordinance that can be used against you. There in Portland
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Speaker 2: or Sacramento or Stanton, Virginia. Story of burning up the
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Speaker 2: social media right now, just down the road from us
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Speaker 2: in our flagship here in Stanton, we were actually supposed
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Speaker 2: to be there. We were going to be broadcasting live
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Speaker 2: from a rally with winsome Seers and our friend John Reid,
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Speaker 2: who we had on yesterday morning in the program, and
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Speaker 2: Attorney General Jason Mires. And you know, there are life
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Speaker 2: lessons in all things. And I always tend to think
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Speaker 2: that you and me were normal until you ask somebody, hey,
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Speaker 2: can you meet me right before work? And they say, okay,
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Speaker 2: when do you need me to meet you? And you
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Speaker 2: say four o'clock. Yeah, ay, yes, I mean, and I
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Speaker 2: get it when you and me we're getting together. We
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Speaker 2: are the outliers in a lot of ways, but we're
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Speaker 2: launching the day into its trajectory or we're settling it
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Speaker 2: back into its nest. But both the procedural issues in
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Speaker 2: all of these states, whether it's California and sadly California.
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Speaker 2: California at least is close to following their own rules
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Speaker 2: of order, because in California's case, they're they're following the
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Speaker 2: procedure of having a referendum and then you vote on it,
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Speaker 2: and then he goes to the house. Hello, good morning,
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Speaker 2: you're on the air, first thing this morning with Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 2: Who's this good morning?
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Speaker 5: This is actually business related, so if you could give
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Speaker 5: us a callback.
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Speaker 4: You left me a voicemailinia generator's service.
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, hey, you know we all need electricities sometimes. Well,
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Speaker 2: thank you for that. That's right, Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: Can I just use the number that's on my call
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Speaker 2: of my caller ID, Yes, sir, thank you very much,
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Speaker 2: and we'll call back there. You see, when you run
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Speaker 2: a small business, that happens sometimes there And yes, there
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Speaker 2: are things don't don't don't ask. I know your mind
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Speaker 2: being a creative, fertile place is running a mack of
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Speaker 2: a What does Joe need a generator for? Oh, if
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Speaker 2: you only knew it's a weekend Friday is here? And
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Speaker 2: who else isn't calling out to see if there's a
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Speaker 2: generator that they can bring in for the weekend. This
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Speaker 2: text message, Joe, you said the White House hosted trigger
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Speaker 2: treaters on the portico. Can could anyone in Washington, d C?
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Speaker 2: Just walk up? Or was this a list that had
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Speaker 2: to be vetted through the Secret Service six months in advance,
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Speaker 2: you know, generally speaking? Yeah, the Secret Service was pretty
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Speaker 2: well involved. Yeah, I'm sorry, Spider Man. Could you lift
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Speaker 2: up your bag? Can you take the mask off Batman.
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Speaker 1: For you? From Joe Thomas, it's first thing today. I
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Speaker 1: caught a cold last week and I could ruin my
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Speaker 1: fillibusto ruin? What did you do?
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Speaker 2: I took an old souther remedy son.
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Speaker 1: I drag down two buckets of hot mint julip.
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Speaker 2: You drank two buckets of hot minjulips and you still
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Speaker 2: held the floor. Hell, the floor done.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't get up off it.
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Speaker 2: The great Senator Claghorn. It's really a shame they haven't
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Speaker 2: named one of the Senate Office buildings after him. Filibuster
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Speaker 2: and the ability just to make your own rules. Wouldn't
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Speaker 2: it be great? Wouldn't it be great in your world
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Speaker 2: if you could just, you know, make your own rules? Humph.
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Speaker 2: I don't like coming in at this hour of the morning.
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Speaker 2: I don't feel like filing paperwork this way or I don't.
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Speaker 2: A job has to have structure, and one of the
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Speaker 2: things that the Marxist wants is to create chaos so
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Speaker 2: that we crave control. So right now, this this breakneck
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Speaker 2: you know, both at the state level and the federal
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Speaker 2: level idea that you can just yeah, right, whatever rules
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Speaker 2: you want, you can you can change them. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm not against being able to say, hey, what kind
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Speaker 2: of bills go to what committee and what committee is.
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Speaker 2: You have to have that kind of flexibility. But when
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Speaker 2: we talk about this issue president Trump calling for the
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Speaker 2: nuclear option to drop the filibuster, I got to say,
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Speaker 2: there are applications where the filibuster protects liberty, but is
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Speaker 2: it required for every single bill that comes through the Senate?
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Speaker 2: And this becomes where you say, well, we haven't passed
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Speaker 2: any of our budget resolutions since nineteen ninety whatever. I
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Speaker 2: think it's more recent than that. But my point being
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Speaker 2: that we keep having continuing resolutions and we can barely
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Speaker 2: get those passed because they have to get to sixty votes.
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Speaker 2: Why do those have to get to sixty votes? I mean,
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Speaker 2: I can see you know, treaties being signed. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's funny. You know, just a spending plan requires sixty votes,
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Speaker 2: but a Supreme Court justice doesn't. This is where oh,
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Speaker 2: I'm making up my own rules, Isn't it great? The
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Speaker 2: host of the Good for America podcast, Bob Good visiting
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Speaker 2: with us on this Friday morning. Bob, I wanted to
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Speaker 2: ask you about you know, just get us a win.
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Speaker 2: It's win, baby, win. You know Jay Jones, we find
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Speaker 2: out that he wistfully dreams of shooting political opponents, that
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Speaker 2: they can feel the pain of somebody who is the
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Speaker 2: victim of violence so that they'll change their position on it,
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Speaker 2: and his fundraising goes up. You know, we say that
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Speaker 2: these people are outliers, but are they really actually a
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Speaker 2: much more representative outlook as to what the American left
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Speaker 2: is thinking these days?
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Speaker 5: Clearly so, clearly so, violence is an acceptable means of
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Speaker 5: political action by far too many on the left, by
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Speaker 5: far too many a Democrat party. And to your point,
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Speaker 5: you've not seen any elected officials call for j on
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Speaker 5: Democrats high to call for j John to drop out
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Speaker 5: of the race, but in fact, instead, as you see,
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Speaker 5: as you noted that his financial support has gone up,
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Speaker 5: I think the Attorney general race is over. I think
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Speaker 5: Jason Mirez will win. I believed he would win from
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Speaker 5: the beginning, just because I thought that as the incumbent,
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Speaker 5: he has somewhat of financial advantage, and also he's been
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Speaker 5: sort of a capable competent ag where no one can
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Speaker 5: point of failures on his partner. And many Virginians want,
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Speaker 5: you know, law and order and public safety in the
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Speaker 5: Attorney General's office. But I think it's over because of
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Speaker 5: how extreme j Jones has been proven to be from
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Speaker 5: a lack of character standpoint, lack of integrity standpoint, and
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Speaker 5: just an embrace of such just heinous thought process mindset
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Speaker 5: that he has has been demonstrated by you know what
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Speaker 5: those texts that were revealed.
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Speaker 2: When do we get back to the business of business.
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Speaker 2: President Trump just back from Asia lifting, you know, restrictions
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Speaker 2: on rare earth minerals. Hardly anyone talking about that, but
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Speaker 2: everything we have has rare earth minerals in it, and
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Speaker 2: China lifts that sanction against exports of it, and all
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Speaker 2: they want to talk about is they didn't have a
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Speaker 2: press conference afterwards. The president must be a loser, you know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if there is a normal to get
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Speaker 2: back to, but I think the American people. We may
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Speaker 2: find New Jersey and Virginia and maybe even in California's
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Speaker 2: Prop fifty election, that that Americans are tired of all
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Speaker 2: this and they just want to get back to work.
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Speaker 5: Well, you got all kinds of different mixed results and
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Speaker 5: mixed signals and conflicting things happening at the same time.
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Speaker 5: On the one hand, you've got New Yorkers seemingly ready
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Speaker 5: to elect essentially a communist, an extremist that would be
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Speaker 5: obviously the worst mayor in the history of New York City,
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Speaker 5: which is hard to do coming after de Blasio. But
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Speaker 5: then it looks like the Virginia the New Jersey governors, right,
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Speaker 5: so that Cidarelli has a real shot, and he's within
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Speaker 5: a point according to the polls there. Mikey Sheryl, just
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Speaker 5: like Abigail Spenberger, was an extremist in Congress, voted just
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Speaker 5: like AOC and Bernie Sanders and Pocahontas and so forth.
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Speaker 5: So maybe New Jerseyans don't want that. And in Cideralli,
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Speaker 5: that would be a great victory if he were to win.
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Speaker 5: Obviously want to Winston Sears win here in Virginia. But
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Speaker 5: President Trump, you know, is certainly a tremendous deal maker,
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Speaker 5: tremendous negotiator. He's conveyed strength and competence unlike what we
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Speaker 5: have at the previous president. You see that with some
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Speaker 5: of the agreements that have been apparently arrived at with
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Speaker 5: China during his recent visit to the occasion.
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Speaker 2: When you laugh, you have to almost when the press
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Speaker 2: is all about, oh, they didn't have a press conference.
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Speaker 2: He must have had his lunch money taken from them
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Speaker 2: in their back to where they were in twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 2: where all they want to do is try to hang
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Speaker 2: an l around the president's neck to try to make
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Speaker 2: them look bad. You know, and I know what it is.
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Speaker 2: It's all heading towards the midterms. So what are you
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Speaker 2: hearing about the midterms, Bob. We're already getting announcements, more
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Speaker 2: and more people announcing that they're running.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm concerned that Republicans need to give the American
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Speaker 5: people more for them to run on. You know, as
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Speaker 5: you know, I keep saying the drum on this, but
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Speaker 5: the debt and the spending is worse than it was
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Speaker 5: a year ago. We just we're saying that we'd reach
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Speaker 5: thirty seven trillion. Now we reconize we reached thirty eight trillion,
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Speaker 5: how quickly we're going to be over forty trillion by
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Speaker 5: the mid terms at the pace that we're at. And
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Speaker 5: you know, and Republicans cannot add to that a deal
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Speaker 5: on extending the Obamacare subsidies on top of it, or
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Speaker 5: caving to some degree on this government shut down. You know,
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Speaker 5: Republicans got to give Americans a reason to vote for them.
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Speaker 5: You know, midterms tend to be tough on the party
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Speaker 5: in power, tough to be on the new president. But
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Speaker 5: we can reverse that if Republicans are courageous and bold
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Speaker 5: and do what they said they would do, which is
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Speaker 5: shrink government and co spending.
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Speaker 2: So what's coming up on the Good for America Podcast.
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Speaker 5: We're going to be focused on the shutdown, on the
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Speaker 5: on the budget spending battle because even the Sea Art
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Speaker 5: the House pass expires on November twenty, even if the
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Speaker 5: Senate does pass, if you're going to have a budget
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Speaker 5: fights all the way through the end of the year,
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Speaker 5: it's always and only about the money. And of course
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Speaker 5: we'll be talking about the elections on Tuesday as well. Well.
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Speaker 2: You have a great week, Bob, Happy Halloween, Happy Birthday
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Speaker 2: to your granddaughter, and we'll talk to you again next week.
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Speaker 5: Thank good, Joe, God bless you.
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Speaker 2: My brother comes in from Shane. I think Shane's listening
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Speaker 2: at Greenwich. It seems like it because he's very hot
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Speaker 2: about what Bob said about New York. He said, Mom,
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Speaker 2: Donnie is going to win New York simply because Curtis
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Speaker 2: Sliwa isn't smart enough to drop out. What does Andrew
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Speaker 2: Cuomo have to do to convince Curtis Sleewa to drop out?
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Speaker 1: Wow?
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Speaker 2: Where do we begin?
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Speaker 4: You know?
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Speaker 2: You know what Andrew Cmo would have to do to
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Speaker 2: get Curtis slee would to drop out? Drop out himself?
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Speaker 2: And why is it? I asked wistfully, somewhat knowing the answer,
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Speaker 2: I ask you writ large at four three four eight
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Speaker 2: eight two four two one seven. Do you get it
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Speaker 2: as well? Notice how every story out of New York
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Speaker 2: City is Sliwa needs to drop out. Sliwa has no
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Speaker 2: path fit to victory. All the polls show that Cuomo
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Speaker 2: wins if Sleewa drops out. What are the polls show
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Speaker 2: if Cuomo dropped out? Or is the concept of that
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Speaker 2: is so laughable that Andrew Cuomo, you know, once he's
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Speaker 2: grabbed a hold of the behind of the electorate. He
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Speaker 2: won't let go. You know, Andrew Cuomo's grip on people
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Speaker 2: he wants to hold close to him is pretty severe. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I know, but it's it's late in a Friday program
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Speaker 2: Forgive Forgive the cheap shots. There's a money back guarantee
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Speaker 2: on him as well. But you know, once Andrew Cuomo
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Speaker 2: gets his hands on something he wants, he's not going
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Speaker 2: to let go. Allegedly, so you know, Cuomo's not going
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Speaker 2: to drop out. This is this is people forget. This
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Speaker 2: is recycling family history. This is making good on the
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Speaker 2: only race Mario the Sanctified ever lost, which was the
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Speaker 2: Democratic Party primary to be mayor of New York because
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Speaker 2: New Yorkers didn't vote Cuomo.
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Speaker 1: Not the first thing today on the Talk Media Network
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Speaker 1: by Joe Thomas, the second most famous Thomas in Charlotte's.
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Speaker 2: Wit on this All Hallows Eve, as we wrap up
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Speaker 2: October and get ready for the ends of the year
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Speaker 2: and election day Tuesday. In so many places, there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of local school board elections, city council elections as
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Speaker 2: well county elections going on in a lot of places.
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Speaker 2: The press has not had their usual time because the
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Speaker 2: President's schedule keeps them busy in Washington to pay their
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Speaker 2: attention to the races here in Virginia. But Nick Fretis.
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Speaker 2: We were talking with Nick a little bit earlier on
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Speaker 2: about the race and where it is and if the
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Speaker 2: issues we see, especially with the way that the politicians
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Speaker 2: are just rewriting the rules as they go along, are
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Speaker 2: going to finally have a come up Ince.
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Speaker 6: Well the thing, Yeah, they definitely have maps where they
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Speaker 6: could make it. They can make Virginia a ten to
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Speaker 6: one state, ten Democrats congress people and one Republican and
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Speaker 6: that's scary.
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Speaker 2: When we talked about this redistricting, we talked to doctor
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Speaker 2: Roberts yesterday in this segment, Kevin Roberts of the Heritage,
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Speaker 2: and I promoted my idea of going going back to
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Speaker 2: constitutional districting, eliminating the nineteen twenty nine racist led Permanent
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Speaker 2: Reapportionment Act meant to keep the black community down, and
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Speaker 2: he says it is gaining momentum. The idea that we
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Speaker 2: have created this scenario where you can take a brush
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Speaker 2: like you're pulling paint and a Bob Ross's paint school,
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Speaker 2: and you're taking that cadmium blue, and you're just pulling
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Speaker 2: it across all the red spots that you've already painted
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Speaker 2: onto the map.
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Speaker 6: And that would just be you know, Southwest Virginia, which
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Speaker 6: is not an accurate reflection at all of the commonwealth.
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Speaker 6: But that's what they could do. That's how they could
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Speaker 6: jerrymander it. And right now they're saying, well, no, it's
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Speaker 6: just for this congressional stuff and it's just for these circumstances. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: I'm sure that once they get a taste of power,
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Speaker 6: they're just going to stop right there, because that's definitely
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Speaker 6: how politicians typically behave. So no, Tom Garrett's point is
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Speaker 6: absolutely spot on. And yeah, like I said, it's one
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Speaker 6: of those things where I, yeah, I don't think because
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Speaker 6: this isn't off your election because there's nobody federal in
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Speaker 6: the ballot, Because this is seen as an indication of
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Speaker 6: what to expect during mid terms. I can't emphasize to
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Speaker 6: to you know, in any voter that is frustrated with
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Speaker 6: what's going on the way our government works is you know,
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Speaker 6: Donald Trump can't fix all of this. Right, We're supposed
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Speaker 6: to take responsibility for our own communities, for our own states,
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Speaker 6: for our commonwealth, and your vote has never been more
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Speaker 6: consequential than it will be today because if they get
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Speaker 6: we got a brief, we got a brief glimpse of
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Speaker 6: what it looks like when they get total power yea.
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Speaker 6: And what it looks like was shutting down your schools.
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Speaker 6: And what it looked like was raising your taxes, and
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Speaker 6: what it looked like was trying to confiscate your firearms.
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Speaker 6: And what it looked like is making your energy bills
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Speaker 6: impossible to pay right and now it's going to look
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Speaker 6: like you know, Boyce in your in your daughter's locker room,
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Speaker 6: across the across Virginia. It won't just be something crazy
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Speaker 6: going on and loud in our Fairfax or arling tent,
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Speaker 6: because they believe it needs to be imposed upon you.
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Speaker 6: If you're one of those local school districts and said, look,
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Speaker 6: we're not we're not buying indose nonsense, well.
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Speaker 2: They don't care. You will be made to care, and
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Speaker 2: so I don't. If we don't win.
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Speaker 6: If we don't win this November, just understand they're going
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Speaker 6: to do so many things in a two year period
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Speaker 6: that even if you do get back the governor in
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Speaker 6: four years, even if you do get back the House
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Speaker 6: of delegates. In two years, they'll still have the Senate
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Speaker 6: unless you get that too, And then how are we
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Speaker 6: supposed to undo this?
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Speaker 2: And that's the question is how do you undo some
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Speaker 2: of these things? And this is where conservatives missed the
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Speaker 2: ball because we tend to promote the idea of constitutional
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Speaker 2: freedoms and it's there, we understand it. They write rules
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Speaker 2: that allow them to wield power where power isn't supposed
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Speaker 2: to exist. The American Progressive, even before they called themselves democrats,
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Speaker 2: wanted to use the commerce clause to go after your businesses. Nick,
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Speaker 2: One of the things you left out of the list
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Speaker 2: when you saw them with unchecked power is they shut
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Speaker 2: down businesses other good reasons than they wanted your business
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Speaker 2: shut down. And then they just started sending money to businesses.
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Speaker 2: A lot of it turned out to be fraudulently collected.
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Speaker 2: Other businesses couldn't even get a listen from their elected representatives.
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Speaker 2: And that's why we need more strict guard guardrails as
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Speaker 2: to what a legislature can do, Ellen reminded me of
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Speaker 2: a wonderful turn in strip comics by Bill Watterson, Calvin
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Speaker 2: and Hobbes. As she writes Joe both sides of the Aisle,
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Speaker 2: definitely employee Calvin Ball Rules to some extent Democrats holding
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Speaker 2: expert status. And of course, if you've ever read Calvin
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Speaker 2: and Hobbes, and I'm sure some of you have read
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Speaker 2: the philosophers Calvin and Hobbes, but I mean the comic
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Speaker 2: strips Calvin and Hobbes. Go go just google up Calvin
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Speaker 2: Ball Rules and you'll understand how your state House and
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Speaker 2: your county board of Supervisors and the federal government are
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Speaker 2: acting for the trekkies out there. It's Fisben. Oh and
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Speaker 2: that's you know, that's as arcane as we're going to
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Speaker 2: get before we finish up with a mic drop this morning.
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Speaker 2: Uh but you know, he just he just referenced Fisben
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Speaker 2: on the radio. Oh yes, oh yes, I did.
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Speaker 6: So.
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Speaker 2: I hope you remember those who have come before us
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Speaker 2: on this All Hallows Eve, and those who have sacrificed
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Speaker 2: so much to make the world a better place on
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Speaker 2: All Saints' Day. And if you have to dress like
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Speaker 2: Freddy Krueger, was was he the one? No, Freddy Krueger
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Speaker 2: was with the fingernails right. Jason Vorhees was the one
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Speaker 2: with the William Shatner mask on backwards. Whatever you're dressing
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Speaker 2: as for Halloween, whether it just be a conservative voter
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Speaker 2: going out to the polls in New Jersey or Virginia,
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Speaker 2: or an American citizen trying to get on what they're
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Speaker 2: getting on this morning, or you really wanted to be Superman,
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Speaker 2: didn't you. Whatever it is, enjoy your Halloween. We'll be
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Speaker 2: here Saturday morning. If your station doesn't carry our Saturday
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Speaker 2: morning program. It's the thou shalt not get away with
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Speaker 2: an edition. All manners of stuff get announced Friday night
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Speaker 2: so that they hope you don't talk about it until
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Speaker 2: Monday when they can disgorge other things on the Sunday Talkers,
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Speaker 2: and we have a few affiliates. I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: think up in Lowell and out on Long Island, back
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Speaker 2: in my old home one oh three point nine FM,
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Speaker 2: and here in Stanton in Charlottesville at one one point
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Speaker 2: one and twelve forty am. Not sure what Halloween brings
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Speaker 2: for me. I know I got a note that said,
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Speaker 2: quote the raven nevermore so whatever is in your telltale heart.
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Speaker 2: I hope you have a great Halloween, and we will
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Speaker 2: reconvene Monday morning for most of the network, or like
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Speaker 2: I said Saturday morning. If you want your station to
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Speaker 2: get it, write on a little note, Sam, we really
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Speaker 2: kind of enjoy this and it's four hours long. Does
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Speaker 2: he do it for four hours until Monday? So long
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Speaker 2: and thanks for all the fish.
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Speaker 2: Kay